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  What a Jerk is warm and friendly and now indoors By Stephen Weir The message I received early last week brought a smile to my face while the email quickly getting to the point. Al "Allos" Foster, the pan-playing owner of the What A Jerk food truck, has parked his mobile kitchen for the winter and moved his act indoors to Etobicoke. His new sit-down spot, What a Jerk Restaurant, in Long Branch, near Lakeshore and 29th Street, has been open for over a month, giving Foster and his team the luxury of cooking indoors during this bitterly cold January. “So I did a thing…” he wrote. “I have been operating my own mobile food business called What A Jerk! since 2018 (how time flies!). I’m now happy to inform you that I have expanded the brand to include a brick-and-mortar restaurant in Etobicoke. What A Jerk Restaurant is now open for business at 3303 Lake Shore Blvd West.” The restaurant offers it all: takeout, dine-in, home delivery, and a full Caribbean menu. “Yes,” Foster told m...

  Meanwhile at Scarborough Town Centre                        NDP leader MPP Andrea Horwath tours Carnival Flavours with two Mas Models                      - photo by Herman Silochan    Following the late afternoon ending of the Emancipation Day happening along Bloor Street, many of the participants piled into cars and made their way to the Scarborough Town Centre for the windup of the last Toronto Caribbean Carnival event scheduled for 2022.   Called  Carnival Flavours ,  the three-day fete was held outdoors at the  Scarborough Town Centre .  Pan. Calypso. Dance. Food.  Costumes. Every form of Carnival Arts was on stage performing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings on the mall’s huge parking lot. Carib Beer, one of the Carnival Flavours had a large beer tent on site.   “We had an incredible turn-out, and for the ...